Desert funerary architecture and afterlife beliefs in the Arid Southern Levant from a Longue Durée Perspective

Abstract: Use and intermittent visits to funerary and afterlife-related cultic structures played a significant role in the afterlife-world of the nomadic , semi-pastoral population that lived in the southern Levantine and Syro-Arabian arid margins for several millennia. This paper intends to anal...

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Autor principal: Tebes, Juan Manuel
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Publicado: ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/12973
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Sumario:Abstract: Use and intermittent visits to funerary and afterlife-related cultic structures played a significant role in the afterlife-world of the nomadic , semi-pastoral population that lived in the southern Levantine and Syro-Arabian arid margins for several millennia. This paper intends to analyze the archaeological evidences of mortuary structures and afterlife-related cultic architecture in the Negev and southern Jordan from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic Period. The study will actively adopt a longue durée and trans-regional perspective by exploring several case studies in the long tradition of desert funerary landscapes